Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

I grew up with reggae music.

Africa is the future.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.

If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.